The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-05-06
WISCONSIN STATE NEWS.

Joseph Beauvais, a half-breed French
man, was drowned in Yellow river, near
Marsh 6eld, a few days ago while cunning
legs on the drive. The logs becoming IN
manageable, ne was swept under. The de-
ceased was unmarried and had relatives
near Ottawa. Can.
Farmers in the vicinity of La Crosse are
talking Of establishing a creamery. The
milk of five hundred cows had already
been pledged.
Herman B. Fisher died at his home in
Lancaster the other evening after an ILL
ness of only few days. He was in his
eighty second year
Nelson Ninham, an Oneida Indian, who
pleaded guilty to adultery, was sentenced
at Green Bay a few days ago to one year
in the penitentiary
A new post-office has been established at
Hager City, Pierce County.
Jacob Obefmann, the well-known Mil
waukee brewer, died at midnight the other
night of heart-disease.
A furious northeaster ragged at Eau Claire
the other night The mercury stood at the
freezing point and seven or eight inches of
snow fell. A high wind Frustrated trees
and piled up heavy drifts.
There are many buildings in the city Of
Marinette that will he found to stand part
iy in the streets when the latter are resur-
veyed and Strengthened.
A distressing accident occurred in the
town of Buena Vista, Richland County, q
few days ago. While A. G. Bills and his
hired man were splitting post, the axe in
the hands of the latter flew off the helve
and struck Mr. Bills on the hand, entirely
severing it from the arm. 81
The $50 striking journeymen custom
tailors in Milwaukee gave up the fight a
few days ago and returned to work. The
bosses had ignored the union, and the men
were unable to hold out longer for lack of
funds
Over $50 rats were killed recently in an
old building in Madison which was being
| torn down.
The farmers around Mansion, June au
| County have agreed to furnish the new
pickle factory with gherkins at sixty cents
per one hundred pounds, the seed to be
furnished them at fifty cents pound.
From fifty to seventy-fve acres are under
| contract.
Mrs. Catharine Dunbar, Of Waukesha,
owner of the Bethesda spring, died the
other evening at Paris, France.
The Cream City Hotel, a large frame
structure at Ahnapee, Kewaunee County,
was destroyed by fire the other morning.
Loss, $1,000; insurance, $4,000
The La Crosse Valley Odd Fellows Asso-
ciaton including the lodges along the line
| of the railway between Sparta and La
Crosse, celebrated the anniversary OF the
order a few days ago at La Crosse.
| The fishing for trout has fairly begun in
the vicinity of Boscobel, and the many
streams on either side of that city are the
! objective points for those who take delight
! in such sport. The streams appear to be
unusually we'll stocked.
The barn of David Graham, at Clinton
Junction, was burned few days ago, and
Graham's little boy persisted in the flames.
Horace Griggs, a veteran member of the
! Milwaukee Chamber of Commerce, died a
| few days ago.
The headless body of a young man taken
from the river at Milwaukee recently was
identified as that of James G. Vieau, Of
Muskego, Waukesha County. His rela-
tives were informed, and took charge of
the remains. Young Vieau was miller.
He was disspated, and was constantly in
! debt.
U. L. Fuller, an attorney at Plymouth,
has sued his father-in-law, John Maynard,
Emily e. Glidden u sister-in-law, and Ell
vira Crockett for alleged alienation of his
wfe's affections, claiming damages to the
amount of $4,000. The case will be tried
at the July term of the ShebOygan court.
The aldermen of La Crosse have decided
! to set out five hundred trees in Lake Park
and macadamize the road leading from the
park to the cemetery.
Samuel Shepard of Storytown, Rock
County, died of cancer Of the stomach the
| other night aged seventy-three years.
August Stef1in, who was employed in the
Knox Bros. mill at Wausau, was fatally
injured the other night by being struck on
the head by a slab thrown from a saw.
The Common Council of Beloit recently
| fixed the price of a combined wholesale
and retail liquor license at $780, and twelve
| applicants were accommodated at that rate
The citizens of Lone Rock, Rchland
County, have placed bell on the depot at
that place, to be rung twenty minutes be-
fore the arrival of ali trains.
| Wisconsin military companies entered
for the National encampment in Washing
ton as reported by the committee, are the
| First Light Battery; Milwaukee Light
| Horse Squadron; Company A, First Infant
| ry, and Company G, Third Infantry.
James Vanetta, of GAINESVILLE. recently
bought from w. H Crawford of San
| Francisco, the colt Problem, for the sum
of 50, $50.
A veterinary surgeon recently removed
pine knot from the leg of mare belong
! ing TO William Parker, of Belle PLANE,
| Shawano County, that measured ten inches
in length by one and three-fourths in di-
| ameter.
Mrs. Catherine McQuillan was found
dead in her room at Eau Claire a few days
ago. A post mortem showed that death
had been caused by fatty degeneration Of
| the heart.
Peter Schumacher the insane man who
recently received SO, 500 arrears of pension
and S72 month"; escaped from the Brown
County Insane Asylum the other morning.
Trapping muskrats on the Wolf river
has been much less profitable during the
last season than for some years.
| Adam Weitzler, a sailor aged ffty-fOur
| years, stabbed to death Gus Rivers, aged
twenty-eight years, at Ashland few days
| ago. Weitzler was hurried 70 jail to save
him from being lynched.
| The Wisconsin Central railroad has been
| completed to within eight miles of Hurley,
on the Gogebic iron range.
A calf belonging to D. B. Stevens, of
Cassville, Grant County, was picked from
the track by a passing train recently and
carried On the cow-catcher to a point OPP
posite its stable when it jumped off, not
in the least harmed.
The authorities at Washington are max
ing arrangements to transfer the Boise
Forte and Grand Portage Chippewa In
dams, attached to the La Pointes, of Bay
field, to Montana The tribes number
! about one thousand men, women and chill
| dren.
The family of the late Henry ]. Peters,
an old settler of Milwaukee, recently
| found beneath the cellar floor of their resi-
dence chest containing nearly $4,000 in
gold coin. The discovery was reported to
Judge Mann, of the probate court. On his
death bed Mr.. Peters told his wife that
she would find enough for herself and
| children.
Eau Claire has lady clairvoyant who
claims to be able to locate iron mines with
wonderful accuracy.
The Oneida Indian orchestra, of Brown